Kindergarten Lesson Plan- Amdy Warhold Prints

Objectives

· Students will mix their own watercolors, taking care to wash out the brush so they don’t mix colors. (P)

· Students will use one piece of paper. ©

· Students will express emotion with color. Students will tell me how red,

Blue, yellow, green, etc., make them feel while painting. (P, A)

· Each child will clean up his area after he has finished his project. (C, P)

Standards Addressed

· Play with mixing colors either using finger painting or a brush, instructing how to wash out brush in between colors. (Build Skills Practice) · Express emotion with line. Play with a combination of happy (loopy) and sad (droopy) lines using pen, marker, crayons and brushes. Vocabulary Emotion: any strong feeling.

Pedagogy

Each child will be given a piece of watercolor paper that has been divided into 4 squares, watercolor paints, water, and a painting apron. The students will trace the grid with a dark crayon.

Next, the students will mix four different watercolors, taking care to use equal parts water and color. As they are mixing the colors, talk about how different colors make us feel. While the watercolors are drying, have the students practice making handprints. Give each table 4 pieces of black paper and a plate of white paint. Each child will dip their hand into the paint, and make 4 handprints. After the watercolor paper has dried (about 20 minutes), hand out the papers to the students. Give each child some black and white paint. Each child needs to have either 2 black and 2 white handprints on their paper, or a combination of the two paint colors. Remind them that they need to wash their hands in-between the prints. Have the students flip their hands on the bottom row to make a visually interesting checkerboard pattern. After they have finished their project, have them clean up their areas.

Teacher Resources

http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/search/label/0%20grade?updated-max=2011-01-16T13%3A07%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=20

You will need some copies of similar Andy Warhol work, along with posters (pre-made) of how different colors make you feel.

Assessment

· The student’s work will be assessed in the following criteria: Did the student mix their own watercolors? Did the student use only one piece of paper? Did the student express emotion with color? Did the student clean up their area? I will walk around while the students are working, and will silently assess them, and they will be assessed a 3-2-1-0 on a rubric.

3 (Excellent)	2 (Average)	1(Below Average)	0 (Unsatisfactory)
The student mixed their own watercolors.	The student mixed most of their watercolors.	The student mixed some of their watercolors.	The student did not mix their watercolors.
The student will use only one piece of paper.		The student used more than one piece of paper.	The student did not do the project.
The student will express emotion with color.	The student expressed some emotion with color.	The student expressed a few emotions with color.	The student did not express emotion with color.
The student will clean their area after they have finished.	The student cleaned up most of their area after they finished.	The student cleaned up some of their area after they finished.	The student did not clean up their area after they finished.

Adaptations/Integrations/Accommodations

Instead of watercolor, they could paint with regular paint, and go crazy with the color mixing. To make this a little bit easier, you could have the grid pre-drawn, and just have them darken the boundaries with a crayon. An adaptation would be to have the lines already drawn; that would make their project a little easier for students with disabilities.